Author: Dilip

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India Has Seen At Least 134 Violations of Free Speech in 2024: Free Speech Collective

“Free speech in India has sunk into a perilous abyss and steadily falling press freedom indices underscore the dangers of crossing a line that is becoming increasingly contentious,” the collective said in its report. The first four months of 2024 in India have already seen at least 134 instances of free speech violations, with journalists,… Read More India Has Seen At Least 134 Violations of Free Speech in 2024: Free Speech Collective

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Large police presence at UCLA as protests disrupt colleges nationwide

NB: US police are armed to the teeth with Army castoffs from failed wars overseas, and are now waging war on America’s young. There are also vicious right-wing vigilantes in action,: peaceful protestors for Gaza in UCLA were attacked by masked men yesterday, There’s an ongoing civil war in the USA, in case we haven’t… Read More Large police presence at UCLA as protests disrupt colleges nationwide

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Road to serfdom

Telling the poor to settle for five kilos of ration and allowing cronies to grab five airports make every other form of inequality worse. It will turn India into an insufferably unjust society… We did not see this vulgar level of inequality even during British rule. They reported that 1% of our population corners 22%… Read More Road to serfdom

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Saudi Arabia activist sentenced to 11 years in prison for ‘support’ of women’s rights

NB: The Saudi regime and its brutal leadership believes advocacy for women’s equality to be equivalent to terrorism. The regime is a crucial ally of the USA and UK; and we do not find any instances of attempts at so-called ‘regime change’ being promoted over there by the (ha ha) ‘Free World’. PS – the… Read More Saudi Arabia activist sentenced to 11 years in prison for ‘support’ of women’s rights

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In Gaza Protest, Columbia Students Occupy Hamilton Hall, Site of Historic 1968 Takeover

GAZA casualties, live statistics NB: Nothing is ever repeated with precision, but American imperialism and its proxies (to use a favourite phrase of their Orwellian media) has been rampaging through the world for many decades after the end of the World War. Vietnam, Chile, Afghanistan, Iraq, and the endless war on the Palestinian population, are… Read More In Gaza Protest, Columbia Students Occupy Hamilton Hall, Site of Historic 1968 Takeover

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Workers accuse Google of ‘tantrum’ after 50 fired over Israel contract protest

Tech giant fired number of people who protested against $1.2bn Project Nimbus, which supports Israeli military and government Michael Sainato Google has been accused of throwing a “tantrum” after sacking more than 50 workers in response to a protest over the company’s military ties to the Israeli government – firings that have shone a light… Read More Workers accuse Google of ‘tantrum’ after 50 fired over Israel contract protest

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Daughter of prominent Palestinian poet killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza. Khuda Hafiz

NB: There are three kinds of wrongdoing: mistakes; crimes; and sins. Mistakes can be corrected, crimes may be punished; but for a sin, you can only repent: These lines are taken from the 1987 Georgian Soviet film Repentance, by Tengiz Abuladze. The American-backed Israeli Defence Forces call themselves the most moral army in the world. Their… Read More Daughter of prominent Palestinian poet killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza. Khuda Hafiz

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